linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/urgent] Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:28:13 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rdreier@...co.com,
	mmarek@...e.cz, tglx@...utronix.de, mhiramat@...hat.com,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE,	LC_NUMERIC
 to C

On 12/17/2009 02:09 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> 
> This is IMO -next fodder and not urgent stuff.
> In the distant past something similar caused us troubles.
> 
> I assume that the patch posted by Roland fixes
> the relevant troubles with the awk script and that
> this patch is just for consistency.
> So in other words stuff for -next and not -rc1.
> 

No: the patch Roland posted fixes the problems with non-POSIX-compliant
awk (e.g. mawk), but it in turn requires this patch in order to not
break on non-C-locale-default systems (which are most systems nowadays.)

So -rc1.

	-hpa
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